Hey all, I made a Firefox extension (signed by Mozilla) specifically to add Show/Hide Child Comments functionality similar to how RES had it (where the parent comment is still visible).

It’s not very useful, but I could use some feedback on tightening up the Javascript. I’m not a JS beginner, but I know I can do better, so any tips are welcome!

EDIT: Also, if anyone has any suggestions for the extension, I’m open to those as well.

  • LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml
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    6 months ago

    I tend to think that extensions for websites should be treated as feature requests by the website. Reddit for example should have just incorporated RES features.

    One I liked was tags for users to I could remember who they are better.

    • towerful@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      An extension is a great way for users to try features before companies implement them.
      I have huge respect for games that enable modding, then - respectfully - incorporate mod QoL features into the main game. It shows they are listening to the community.

      An extension is actually a great way to propose a feature, allow users to try it, and if it’s popular then you have a great case for devs to implement it.

      And I wish that Reddit had spent time & money implementing RES features natively. It was basically a “Reddit but useable” feature list.

  • cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months ago

    I really miss the RES feature of keyboard navigation (mainly j, k, to move between posts.) Thanks for making this!

    • kn0wmad1c@programming.devOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Hey, just a heads up - I updated the extension to add some rudimentary keyboard navigation. Your j and k are there, and also you can use m to toggle the child comments for the selected comment.

      • Baizey@feddit.dk
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        6 months ago

        If you wanna tighten up your extension build process feel free to steal my build setup :) (https://github.com/Baizey/UniversalAutomaticCurrencyConverter )

        It’s using esbuild and I’m using it to bundle for both chrome and Firefox separately (they expect slightly different manifest files), has multi entry points support (background, content, options and popup) and builds for ts/js

        • Lemminary@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          bundle for both chrome and Firefox

          You’re a true warrior tolerating that. It gives me headaches.

          E: And you even set up Storybook? Respect.

          • Baizey@feddit.dk
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            6 months ago

            Oh yeah, but the current manifest v3 difference between Firefox and Chrome is peanuts compared to when I had to have custom logic around regex as they didn’t support the same set of regex specs. Fuck that